Ellen G. White: The Australian Years: 1891-1900 (vol. 4)

Ellen G. White's Message to the Delegates

Four days after penning the message to church leaders quoted above, she wrote a message to be delivered to the delegates at the session. It read: 4BIO 62.1

Dear Brethren of the General Conference,

I am rejoiced to report to you the goodness, the mercy, and the blessing of the Lord bestowed upon me. I am still compassed with infirmities, but I am improving. The Great Restorer is working in my behalf, and I praise His holy name. 4BIO 62.2

After writing briefly of her prolonged illness and her relation to it, she declared: 4BIO 62.3

Since the first few weeks of my affliction, I have had no doubts in regard to my duty in coming to this distant field; and more than this, my confidence in my heavenly Father's plan in my affliction has been greatly increased.... 4BIO 62.4

I have since leaving America written twenty hundred pages of letter paper. I could not have done all this writing if the Lord had not strengthened and blessed me in large measure. Never once has that right hand failed me. My arm and shoulder have been full of suffering, hard to bear, but the hand has been able to hold the pen and trace words that have come to me from the Spirit of the Lord. 4BIO 62.5